Red Cross says three workers missing in Mali

The International Red Cross on Tuesday said three of its workers were being held in northeastern Mali by an unidentified group. The team were flagged down in their vehicle “by someone on a motorbike, who told them to follow him,” Valery Mbaoh Nana, the spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Malian capital Bamako, told AFP. The incident happened on Saturday as the team were driving out of Abeibara, in the north of Kidal region, at the end of a three-day assignment, he said.